The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.14

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Agastya-āśrama—1. Twenty-four miles to the south-east of Nasik, now called Agastipuri : it was the hermitage of Rishi Agastya. 2. Akolha, to the east of Nasik, was also the hermitage of Agastya (Rāmāyaṇa, Āraṇyakāṇḍa, ch. 11). 3. Kolhapur in the province of Bombay. 4. Sarai-Aghat, forty miles south-west of Itah and about a mile to the north-west of Sankisa in the United Provinces (Führer's Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions). 5. Agastya Rishi is still said to reside, as he is believed to be alive, at the Agastya-kūṭa mountain in Tinnevilly, from which the river Tāmraparṇī takes its rise (Caldwell's Dravidian Grammar, Introduction, p. 118, Bhāsa's Avimāraka, Act iv). See Tāmraparṇī, Malaya-giri and Kārā. 6. About twelve miles from Rudra-prayāga in Garwal is a village called Agastyamuni which is said to have been the hermitage of the Rishi. 7. On the Vaidūrya-Parvata or Satpura Hill (Mahābh., Vana, ch. 88). 8. See Vedāraṇya. Agastya introduced Aryan civilisation into Southern India. He was the author of the Agastya-Saṃhitā, Agastya-Gītā, Sakalādhikāra, &c. (Rām Rāja's Architecture of the Hindus ; O. C. Gangoly's South Indian Bronzes, p. 4).